And it doesn’t take long for you to start seeing repeat events, maybe two hours (if that) of Insurmountable gameplay. This can be a little irritating as they are rather limited in number and so it becomes repetitious. In fact, you’ll end up experiencing the same events multiple times. You can decide to give it some of your food and turn it into a more positive encounter that grants you some sanity (which is pretty much a happiness meter) or you can shoot it away and take those herbs, which are an inventory item that could give you a buff of some kind later on, such as increasing your health or energy.Įvery one of these events allows you to make rudimentary choices that will alter the course of that event, but they don’t contribute to an over-arching narrative. You encounter a friendly animal that’s chewing on some herbs. These events then either take or give stats and/or inventory items. These events are things like meeting a fellow mountaineer, finding an abandoned camp, or encountering an animal. In addition, much of the game’s “narrative”, if one could call it that, is tied up with a variety of procedurally generated events. On each mountain, you need to navigate your character through a variety of terrain types, which each have their stats to them as certain terrains, like thick snow, takes more energy to wade through. On the “normal” difficulty setting, it is quite forgiving, but it gets significantly harder on those higher difficulties. You need to keep your energy, oxygen, sanity, and temperature in mind as you play, and whenever any of these stats reach zero, you will start to lose health and then die if you keep going. The gameplay of Insurmountable has you managing a number of stats. Either way, you’re climbing a mountain and trying to get somewhere. Sometimes it will be a very specific area, and other times it will simply be the highest point, the summit. Every level presents you with a procedurally generated mountainous region constructed out of various blocks of differing terrain types and you need to make your way to a specific destination through those blocks. So, what is Insurmountable? It’s a roguelite mountain climbing game.
Do not expect any kind of a rush while playing, it’s for a very specific type of player, but there is at least the option to turn on a setting that increases the overall speed of the game so at least it isn’t too slow… but it’s still very slow. But I am going to emphasize here immediately: it is a slow game.
It’s a good palate cleanser if nothing else. Maybe you don’t want an endless onslaught of action-oriented games and instead need to have some slow-paced, turn-based mountain climbing. Sometimes a game comes along that is incredibly niche, and that’s a great thing because not everyone is interested in the usual fare.
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